Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tibet is cold, filled with silence and bones, haunted by demons; yet Tibetans are a strangely happy people. In the brief two months of summer, they swarm from their dirty, smoke-filled houses, set up white tents with blue trimmings on the river meadows, sing, drink milk beer and tell stories. They splash together in the streams for their first baths of the year. Nearly every visitor to penetrate the forbidden land has been enchanted by its people. They do few things terribly well, but everything with zest. Explorer Fosco Maraini believes they have found the secret of liberty, which...
...battle was only starting. In Sydney a daily Sun reporter charged that he had walked up to Ava at a local pub and got a drink of champagne in his face, and the glass with it. Said he: "As I stood there dripping amid shattered glass, she gave me her views on the press in gutter language running mostly to fundamental four-letter words." Newsmen reported that she expressed the same views in roughly the same terms about the city of Melbourne to a nonplused officer of the aircraft carrier Melbourne, lent to the moviemakers by the Australian navy...
...factor in the "just one more" reaction leading to chronic alcoholism, and this one could be left out. Meanwhile, Carroll noted that vodka is lowest in congeners; next purest is gin, then Scotch, then bourbon. Blended whiskies vary according to their proportions (and there are differences among brands). The drink with the most...
...roll into town boasting of new driving endurance records -26 hours from Ohio State, 27 from Carlisle, Pa.'s Dickinson College-are too buoyant and too broke to worry about being shut out of hotspots. They require only beer and the beach. "It's not that we drink so much," one Notre Dame senior explained sudsily. "It's just that we drink all the time." Cops check identification as carefully as they can, but there were few students in the last fortnight who did not have some sort of paper asserting that they were 21. The owner...
What separated the men from the boys was the definition of moderation. "To many Frenchmen," said the committee, "to drink moderately means to absorb two, three or four liters of wine a day." The Academy of Medicine suggested that one liter (1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts) should be enough, but the committee went further, urged that nobody exceed a liter...